21.   At the time, his father was a prominent lawyer with a successful produce business.

22.   At trial he was represented by a lawyer with less than one year of experience.

23.   Bailey was a trial lawyer with an interest in civil rights and was a former president of the Harlem Lawyers Association.

24.   Barham Lewis, an employment lawyer with Ogletree Deakins in Houston, said he learned the importance of having the answers to benefit-related questions the hard way.

25.   Baxter turned to David Shapiro, another well-known lawyer with similar skills.

26.   Besides his volunteer work, Dickler was a successful lawyer with lucrative links to the broadcast industry.

27.   Besides Wiest, they include Bebe Neuwirth as a financial lawyer with a penchant for powerful men and Austin Pendleton as a Bill Gates-type computer nerd.

28.   A fare increase could break the favorable momentum of growing ridership and service improvements, said Gene Russianoff, a lawyer with the Straphangers group.

29.   A federal indictment filed in Manhattan charged the company and two of its New York-based lawyers with conspiracy to commit immigration fraud.

30.   A lawyer with the National Wildlife Federation, John Kostyack, said the trend in environmental protection was shifting away from the federal level toward the states.